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(hwīt′hed′, wīt′-)

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Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947; Eng. mathematician & philosopher, in the U.S. after 1924

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British mathematician and philosopher. A founder of mathematical logic, he wrote Principia Mathematica (1910-1913) with Bertrand Russell and Process and Reality (1929).

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